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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of MARTHA KOLLN
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 3:55 PM
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Subject: Re: grammar question--verb v. participle
Another adjective test besides "very": "more exciting.
Martha
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 02:54 PM, "Myers, Marshall" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Scott,
I concur with Bill.
"Interesting" and "boring" are also seen as
"exciting" is.
Marshall
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:50 PM
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Subject: Re: grammar question--verb v. participle
Scott --
I'd say it was an adjective, of the type that's made out of a verb (if the
class has talked in some way about participles, with or without the term
actually being used). You can put "very" in front of it easily,
which supports the idea that it's an adjective or adverb, and you can rule out
adverb fairly easily too (it's not movable, you should be able to say
"excitingly" there if it were an adverb, etc.). If the class
hasn't talked about verb forms being used as adjectives, maybe this would be a
good place to bring it up. You can nudge the word verbwards by adding something
interpretable only as an object: "What had been exciting everyone now just
made them confused" (but then the "very" test bombs).
If you're talking about grammatical role, it's a subject complement inside a
wh-clause acting as subject... but I was guessing that seventh grade probably
hasn't focused much on nominal clauses and embedding.
--- Bill Spruiell
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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:59:33 -0800
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Subject: grammar question--verb v. participle
Dear List,
How would you describe "exciting" in the following sentence?
<What had been exciting gave her a feeling of dazed helplessness.>
How would you explain your reasoning to 7th graders?
Thanks,
Scott Woods
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